Canal Towpath
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Fernando X. Sanchez.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Isn’t it more than a bit creepy to buy a woman’s remaining possessions in the very house she was murdered?
- The canal boat just keeps on keeping on! (But will still likely be destroyed in a month or so).
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- M&T Bank opens in the old Commander Salamander space. GM normally disapproves of new bank branches taking up storefront space, but he’ll make an exception for a Buffalo-based bank. Go Bills!
- Georgetown canal boat gets a reprieve, but not a pardon.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The city says you shouldn’t swim in the Potomac. GM says life’s too short to not take a few risks.
- Farewell party of canal barge today.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by elizjoy22.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- This is what is going to replace the canal barge. GM actually likes it. He’s always wanted a similar electric launch.
- Georgetowner makes the case to zone half the West Heating Plant property as parkland.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by scratch n sniff.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- In one of Georgetown’s more bizarre moments in history: a congressional committee met in the West Heating Plant yesterday to complain about GSA not unloading property fast enough.
- Only one more week to bid adieu to the canal boat. It is going to be destroyed next week.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Jim_Malone.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Say goodbye to the old canal boat. It’s getting destroyed.
- City will spend $200,000 to upgrade Volta Park tot-lot.
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Now and a Long Time Ago: Canal Towpath
Last week GM introduced a new series, “Now and a Long Time Ago”. It was a replacement for his old series “Not So Long Ago”. Unlike that other series, where GM compared photos of today with photos from 1993 (in order to show how much has changed in such a short amount of time), with the new series he’ll show how much has changed over a rather long time.
And today he stops by the canal towpath between Thomas Jefferson and 30th St.
The old photo is from the Library of Congress (where pretty much all the old photos are going to come from) and it was taken by Albert Burns October 1, 1935. The most striking difference is that nowadays there’s a rather large tree on the banks. Of course, when this was an active canal, any trees between the towpath and the canal would have been cut down because they would otherwise get in the way of the ropes.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Ctankcycles.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- A student primer on the Ten Year Plan fight.
- Looks like the Georgetown canal boat is out of commission for an “undetermined amount of time.”
- Blasphemy!
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